New MP3 License Terms Demand /home/hald/bin/make-mbox.bash.75 Per Decoder

[zscoundrel]

Yeah I read that this morning.  The letter was good enough that I 
decided to give it a try and donate a few bucks to the cause!

Gene Dascher wrote:

> That's why we should support Open Source projects like Ogg Vorbis!  Here is
> an open letter to Thompson Multimedia about this from the CEO of Xiph.  It
> is a pretty good read.
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> http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/openletter.html
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> Gene
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
>>[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of zscoundrel
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:28 PM
>>To: kclug at kclug.org
>>Subject: Re: New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder
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>>OK, let's see now, 75 cents to license a decoder that I will never use,
>>because I find most of the terms attached to usage of MP3 to be morally
>>objectionable, hmmmm, not too tough a call there - they - and the
>>RIAA/MPAA a$$holes they want to be like can go $crew themselves.
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>>Pardon the profanity, but I get so tired of the rape your customers
>>attitude associated with the entertainment industry that I just choose
>>to do without it as much as possible.
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>>Don't use it, don't need it, don't miss it!  Why pay for it?
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>>Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
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>>>Maybe.. do the math and then let us all know if you would turn
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>>>much $
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>>>Andrew Bates wrote:
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>>>>Yeah I read that a while ago, that some F'D UP shieet ain't it.
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>>>>Amazing how greedy the human species is.
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>>>>Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
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>>>>>New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder
>>>>>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/27/1626241&mode=nocomment
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